[mythtv-users] aereo

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Jun 26 00:33:26 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 02:26:39PM -0400, airdrummer wrote:
> Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> > Aereo is engaging in a public performance
> 
> well, aren't they offering access to content for profit? and isn't that exactly
> what a bar owner does?

    The bar owner is offering content to multiple people.That makes it a
public performance.

    Aereo wasn't. There were old DVD rental shops that used a similar approach
and managed to survive judicial scrutiny because the courts at that time did
not redefine the notion of a public performance.

[deletia]

    Calling a file transfer to a single person a public performance and then
pretending that this rule won't be applied by the lower courts is a very bad
and dangerous approach.


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